Maya Angelou Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
